| Popis: |
guage afford, and to say this one is dubious, this one is marginal, and this one may be dispensed with altogether in the training of teachers. "Training" may be the crucial word. We propose to educate other people, but we train teachers. The implication is that preparing an English teacher for his work is like showing a green soldier how to strip a machine gun or fitting a new hand into an assembly line for lawn mowers. If the teachers are merely to be trained, what hope is there that the students may be educated? This aspect of the argument disturbed me. But then I began to contemplate alternatives. Alternatives proved a chastening line of thought. Without an accurate and responsible definition of the teacher's job one must undertake to be ready literally for everything. He must believe in the ability of his students to meet every contingency, every question, every problem, and to meet them from the resources of their individual and |
